Quotes About Ambition

All I've ever said I need is an opportunity. Give me a chance, and I'll take it with both hands and run with it.

Nothing is given to us.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

I think about all of the freaking talent shows I've tried out for in my life, and I'm so glad I didn't make any of them.

I hadn't made up my mind whether I had to do Hollywood or Bollywood films because I loved both, and I grew up on both. So I am glad that Bollywood chose me.

When I was 8 years old, I asked my parents to get me head shots, and they were like, 'What are you talking about? Go outside and play!' I'm so glad they did.

I demand a lot and we look to improve, but I'm glad that Atleti are expected to be among the best every year.

I want to do glam roles, too. I don't want to restrict myself when it comes to doing good cinema.

It has never been my ambition to become the glam doll in a film.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I thought I wanted to be a machinist. I thought that was the most glamorous job in the world.

I probably marketed myself all wrong. I had exotic looks; I should have done those glamorous roles that exuded 'oomph.' But in my head, I was always an actress first.

In all my films, I have always played a de-glam role, but I really want to play a glamorous role.

I dont have any problem doing glamorous role, but give me some meat in it.

I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

There are no barriers, and there is no glass ceiling when you put in the work.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

When I speak to people I worked with when I was young, they constantly tell me they wish their students would work half as hard as I did. I was always one to get a lot more out of myself, seeing the glass as half-empty rather than half-full.

There is a glass ceiling for everybody until you find a way to get that connection that Cena has.

I never thought 'The Glass Castle' would be a movie. It's just too complicated.

I would die to get a part in 'Glee' and sing a song.